To coin the terminology of the movie, "The Island" is a good product, but it has no soul.

Rating: 7/10 (11 September 2005)

First let me say that cloning Ewan MacGregor has to be one of the most brilliant ideas ever! Now with that out of the way... I enjoyed watching The Island. The idea appealed to me, and so did the wonderful soundtrack. It's the kind of music that stays with you even though you can't replay it in your mind. I'm a sucker for these "victory of the human spirit" type movies. That being said, although this movie had all the makings of a good product, it pretty much sold its soul. We have tons of product placement (Puma and Nokia for example), Hollywood clichés and huge plot holes. I love Ewan Macgreggor, but his character was so bland and unidimensional that virtually ANYBODY could've played him. Same goes for Scarlett Johanson and Sean Bean. Djimon Honsou was OK, but I could tell from the get-go he's gonna turn by the end of the movie, and Buscemi was simply there as a plot device. I still love to see these actors on screen, all of them. This movie has a higher concentration of actors I love then any other in previous history. And yet I feel it had a lot of potential, potential to really teach us a lesson about what our future holds if we're not careful. But who cares the future when you got a box office in the present to worry about.